BURSTs Online Resources for Math Teachers Grades PreK-5

10-min lessons designed to engage students and make math learning more dynamic and joyful

Here's what is included with each BURST:

VIDEO TUTORIALS

A succinct video analysis that includes a walk-through of the lesson and facilitation tips.

Lesson Write-up

A comprehensive plan detailing how to differentiate instruction and adapt lessons.

Teacher Tools

Slide decks and tech tools needed to enact the lesson with students.

1 BURST

3 BURST Series

$10

$25

Our BURSTs Series

Grades: Pre-K, K, 1

Noticing Routines

These playful, highly interactive routines are designed to develop children’s problem-solving strategies and habits of mind.

There are many possible images to use with each routine, which students can be continually challenged to notice, predict, and question.
  • 1 BURST $10
  • 3 BURST Series $25


Inside Outside

Notice & Wonder
In Early Childhood


Who's hiding?

Grades: K, 1

Early Quick Image Routines

Quick image routines can be used to develop a wide range of important reasoning strategies.

These strategies may include developing fluency with sight quantities, visualizing quantities geometrically, and decomposing and recomposing quantities.
  • 1 BURST $10
  • 3 BURST Series $25


5, Not 5


Billboards

Describe what
you see

Grades: 1, 2, 3

15

5

Developing Fluency & Part
Whole Relations Within 20

These routines are designed to develop essential big ideas strategies in early numeracy.

These include developing students’ fluency with the complements of 20 and relational thinking.
  • 1 BURST $10
  • 3 BURST Series $25

Comparing
Quantities (I)

How Many:
Working within 20

Name the Equation: Working Within 20

Grades: 1, 2, 3

20

80

Developing Fluency & Part
Whole Relations Within 100

These routines are designed to develop essential big ideas strategies in early numeracy.

These include developing students’ fluency with the complements of 100 and relational thinking.
  • 1 BURST $10
  • 3 BURST Series $25

Comparing
Quantities (II)

How Many:
Working within 100

Name the Equation: Working Within 100

Grades: 3, 4, 5

Developing Factor / Multiple Relationships

These routines are designed to develop students’ understanding of factor-multiple relationships.

In each routine, students have the opportunity to look for and reason with patterns, make conjectures, and generalize critical mathematical structures.
  • 1 BURST $10
  • 3 BURST Series $25

Multiple,
Not a Multiple?

Up, Down,
Count Around

Will You
Say?

Grades: 3, 4, 5

Developing Habits of Mind, Problem Solving and Communication in the Upper Grades

These routines are designed to develop students’ capacity to reason with relationships.

In each routine, students have the opportunity to look for and reason with patterns, make conjectures, and generalize critical mathematical structures.
  • 1 BURST $10
  • 3 BURST Series $25

Notice Wonder in
Upper Elementary


True / Not True


You / Me Game

Grades: 2, 3, 4

Early Fraction BURSTs Series

SPECIAL OFFER - INCLUDES 6 BURSTS

How often have you cringed at the word, fractions? How often has this word driven fear into the heart of students? It doesn’t have to be this way for you or your students.

We have created six reasoning routines (BURSTs) in fractions. These routines are designed to engage your students in playful learning that help develop foundational big ideas which are essential for success with fraction content.
  • Bundle: 6 BURSTs $50 $60

6 BURSTs Bundle: $50

Describe
the Situation

Describe
Your Share

Everybody
Gets

Fair?
Not Fair?

What's
My Portion?

Where Would
You Rather Sit?

These 6 BURSTs are exclusively available as part of our popular Early Fractions Series Bundle.